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Author-Name: Daniel Herrero
Author-Workplace-Name: Instituto Complutense de Estudios Internacionales (ICEI), Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
Author-Name: Laura Pérez Ortíz
Author-Workplace-Name: Instituto Complutense de Estudios Internacionales (ICEI), Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
Title: Occupational change in Europe after the Great Recession
Abstract: This paper empirically explores the occupational change in Europe after the 2008-crisis (the Great Recession). 
	During this period, which has remained relatively unexplored by the literature so far, many European economies 
	have implemented profound institutional changes in their labor markets and transformed their growth models. 
	Using individual-level data from 18 economies, we build three indicators of job quality -the average educational 
	attainment, the median earnings, and an index of job instability based on the contractual characteristics of the 
	job- and analyze the relative employment growth of jobs. Our findings suggest that there is not a unique pattern 
	of occupational change in Europe, in opposition to the mainstream view of pervasive polarization. On the contrary, 
	we detect a variety of occupational change profiles, which even differ within the same country depending on the 
	indicator employed.
Keywords: Occupational change; Structural change; Europe; Labor markets.
Creation-Date: 2023
Length: 27 pages
Number: 2301
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